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The cult novel adored by feminists and fashionistas alike, now in paperback.When Chris Kraus, an unsuccessful artist pushing 40, spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick, she falls madly and inexplicably in love, enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit. Dick proposes a kind of game between them, but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone, transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy.Blurring the lines of fiction, essay and memoir, Chris Kraus''s novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997. Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades, I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant, fierce and funny as ever.

Agatha Christies most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer in case he or she decides to strike again.

''What are you thinking, Amy?'' The question I''ve asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: ''What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?'' Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy''s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn''t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren''t his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick''s beautiful wife? And what was in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is the art of war. . .

Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley''s seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of the original. Composed as part of a challenge with Byron and Shelley to conjure up the most terrifying ghost story, Frankenstein narrates the chilling tale of a being created by a bright young scientist and the catastrophic consequences that ensue.Considered by many to be the first science-fiction novel, the tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the tortured creation he rejects is a classic fable about the pursuit of knowledge, the nature of beauty and the monstrosity inherent to man.________''The first novel of the scientific revolution and, incidentally, the first novel of science fiction.'' Brian Aldiss''Frankenstein appeals to something very primal, but its also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth.''Kenneth Branagh''How many fictional characters have made the great leap from literature to mythology; how many creatures of sheer language have stepped from the rhythms of their authors idiosyncratic voices into what might be called a collective cultural consciousness?'' Joyce Carol Oates''The greatest novel of the Romantic movement.'' Michael Dirda

When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape.

Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowes novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America.Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty.Uncle Toms Cabin has remained controversial to this day, seen as either a vital milestone in the anti-slavery cause or as a patronising stereotype of African-Americans, yet it played a crucial role in the eventual abolition of slavery and remains one of the most important American novels ever written.

Written in Lauren Dentons signature Southern style, A Place to Land tells a story of sisterhood, healing, and the meaning of home.

One of the earliest and best collections of stories about hapless aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his supremely efficient valet Jeeves, this volume centers on the romantic travails of Bertie's school chum, Bingo Little. A splendid introduction to P. G. Wodehouse's most popular characters, these comic gems recount Bertie's reluctant involvement in Bingo's misadventures and Jeeves' uncanny ability to rescue his employer from every scrape.In the opening entry, "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum," Bingo seeks help in persuading his wealthy guardian to accept his socially undesirable fiancee. Mabel the waitress is only the first in a succession of Bingo's romantic interests, which include a parson's niece, a Communist, and Bertie's own fianceeamong others. Eighteen connected stories trace Bingo and Bertie's shenanigans at home and abroad and introduce assorted Wooster relatives, from the terrifying Aunt Agatha to Claude and Eustace, the fun-loving, trouble-making twins. The collection is particularly distinguished by the inclusion of a Wodehouse masterpiece, "The Great Sermon Handicap," in which bets are placed on the length of a Sunday oration and hilarity ensues.

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What is Life Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood The gene s eye view of life advocated by evolutionary biology sees living bodies as mere vehicles for the replication of the genetic codes But for a physiologist working with the living organism the view is a very different one Denis Noble is a world renowned physiologist and sets out an alternative view to the question one that becomes deeply significant in terms of the living breathing organism The genome is not life itself Noble argues that far from genes building organisms they should be seen as prisoners of the organism The view of life presented in this little modern post genome project reflection on the nature of life is that of the systems biologist to understand what life is we must view it at a variety of different levels all interacting with each other in a complex web It is that emergent web full of feedback between levels from the gene to the wider environment that is life It is a kind of music Including stories from Noble s own research experience his work on the heartbeat musical metaphors and elements of linguistics and Chinese culture this very personal and a

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prizewinning poetIt is the astonishment of Louise Gluck's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like a landscape seen from above, a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscapePersephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountainpersistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made.

House of Leaves meets Parasite in this gripping and eerily haunting debut psychological horror, soon to be a Netflix film starring Blake Lively. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Leave the World Behind. Winner of Reddit NoSleep Scariest Story of the Year Award A Goodreads 'Best Horror Novel of the Last 5 Years' A Goodreads 'Favourite Horror Novel of 2024' Finalist 'Inventive and genuinely scary' Alma Katsu, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The HungerFull of unease and stomach-churning dread...Read it with every single light on Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrow

Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge.After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old child, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation.But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a diabolical plot for revenge.Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never see coming, Confessions probes the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in danger. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again.

Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea-the power of our mindset.Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals-personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area. If you manage any people or if you are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read Mindset. -Guy Kawasaki, author of The Art of the Start and the blog How to Change the World'Highly recommended . . . an essential read for parents, teachers [and] coaches . . . as well as for those who would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment. -Library Journal (starred review) A serious, practical book. Dweck's overall assertion that rigid thinking benefits no one, least of all yourself, and that a change of mind is always possible, is welcome. -Publishers Weekly A good book is one whose advice you believe. A great book is one whose advice you follow. This is a book that can change your life. -Robert J. Sternberg, author of Teaching for Successful Intelligence A wonderfully elegant idea . . . It is a great book. -Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., author of Delivered from Distraction

The real nineteenth-century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx. -- Albert Camus Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss! -- Albert Einstein Irrespective of its value as a work of art, this novel possesses a deep autobiographical interest also, as the character of Vanya, the poor student who loves Natasha through all her sin and shame, is Dostoevsky's study of himself. -- Oscar Wilde This note of personal feeling, this harsh reality of actual experience, undoubtedly gives Humiliated and Insulted something of its strange fervour and terrible passion, yet it has not made it egotistic; we see things from every point of view, and we feel not that action has been trammelled by fact, but that fact itself has become ideal and imaginative. -- Oscar Wilde The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts which hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading. -- Virginia Woolf The only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea that reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago, (David Mitchell)comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations illuminating Le Guins vision of her classic saga.Ursula K. Le Guins Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literaturethey have received prestigious accolades such as the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, the Nebula Award, and many more honors, commemorating their enduring place in the hearts and minds of readers and the literary world alike.Now for the first time ever, theyre all together in one volumeincluding the early short stories, Le Guins Earthsea Revisioned Oxford lecture, and a new Earthsea story, never before printed.With a new introduction by Le Guin herself, this essential edition will also include fifty illustrations by renowned artist Charles Vess, specially commissioned and selected by Le Guin, to bring her refined vision of Earthsea and its people to life in a totally new way.

Shaws expos of the British class system--featuring the enduring characters of Professor Henry Higgins and the "gutter-snipe" Eliza Doolittle he vows to turn into a lady--remains his most popular play. Includes Shaws Preface and "sequel."

Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century''s most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era. Here is Exodus --one of the great best-selling novels of all time.

What would happen if the Queen became a reader of taste and discernment rather than of Dick Francis? The answer is a perfect story.The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ( JR Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short, her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.

When Milo Ames receives a troubling letter from his childhood nanny, he and Amory travel to Paris where they are soon embroiled in a mystery surrounding the death of a famous parfumier. When secrets unfold and things take a dangerous turn, Amory and Milo must uncover the essence of the matter and catch a killer before the scent goes cold.